Scini Partner
Polar Profile
- If you develop an interest in the natural world, it will train you to be a better observer.
Virtual Base Camp
- 2009 Expeditions
- Completed Expeditions
- Bering Ecosystem Study: Early Spring Plankton and Benthos
- Ocean, Atmosphere, Sea Ice, and Snowpack Interactions
- Geologic Climate Research in Siberia
- Bering Ecosystem Study: Spring Plankton and Changing Ice Cover
- Prehistoric Human Response to Climate Change
- CReSIS Greenland Ice Sheet Studies
- Bering Ecosystem Study: Summer Ice-free Conditions
- Greenland Education Tour ‘09
- High Arctic Change ‘09
- Seabird Ecology in the Bering Sea
- Alaska Climate Variation ‘09
- Polar Bear Response to Sea Ice Loss
- Microorganisms in Antarctic Glacier Ice
- Antarctic Undersea ROV ‘09
- IceCube: In-ice Antarctic Telescope
- Dissolved Organic Matter in Antarctica
- CReSIS Aerial Survey of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
- Ice Core Drilling in West Antarctica
- Completed Expeditions
- 2008 Expeditions
- Bering Ecosystem Change
- Bering Sea Benthic Studies
- Drake Passage Opening
- Greenland Atmospheric Studies
- Greenland Education Tour '08
- Arctic Tundra Dynamics '08
- Changing Tundra Landscapes
- Bering Ecosystem Study '08
- High Arctic Change '08
- Nuvuk Archaeology Studies
- Ocean Dynamics Beaufort Sea
- Kuril Islands Biocomplexity '08
- Lake Ecosystems in Antarctica
- Ancient Buried Ice in Antarctica
- Antarctic Undersea ROV '08
- Erebus Volcano Antarctica
- Oden Antarctic Expedition '08
- Measuring East Antarctic Ice Sheet Stability
- 2007 Expeditions
- Oden Antarctic Expedition '06
- SEDNA Beaufort Sea Ice
- Bering Ecosystem Study
- Greenland Snow Studies
- Bering Sea Predators
- Arctic Tundra Dynamics
- Greenland Education Tour
- Greenland Seabird Ecology
- Climate Change Svalbard
- Alaska Climate Variation
- Kuril Islands Biocomplexity
- SIMBA Antarctic Sea Ice
- Antarctic Undersea ROV
- Human Impacts in Antarctica
- Antarctic Ice Sheet Studies
- Oden Antarctic Expedition '07
- South Pole Ozone Changes
- Antarctic Weather Stations
- TREC Expeditions
- Photo Gallery
- Project Maps
- Related Programs
- Journal Archive
- Podcasts
- Polar Profiles
Hi New Start Middle School -
It is great that you all want to make your own ROV. It is actually a bit harder to make a skinny SCINI. The best thing to do is use PVC pipe and propellar thrusters. You can play around with the design of the ROV and try to make it as skinny as possible. It is my understanding that the smallest it can be is 5 iniches wide because of the propellars. I am planning to have my students build a new and better ROV in the spring. Perhaps, we can collaborate.
Let me know what you guys decide to do and thanks for writing.
Cameo :)
Hi New Starters!
I have a question for YOU - why do you want your ROV to be thin? We made ours thin so that she would fit through a small hole in the ice, as that is much easier to drill than a large hole in the ice and we want to see what lives under the ice. But there are lots of problems that come along with being thin that we have had to work hard to overcome, like SCINI is more challenging to drive and it takes a really funny shaped box to store and protect her. I suggest that you start by deciding what you want to do with your ROV - if you want to fit into narrow places, then thin is what you want, but if you have a larger space to explore, then a more stable shape will give you a vehicle that is easier to drive and maneuver. That is why most ROVs are sort of box-shaped - it is an easy shape to move in any direction. You can design and engineer anything - starting from what you want to do with it!